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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Introducing 'The Way I Heard It'

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2016

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

What inspired this series of short mysteries for the curious mind? Mike Rowe reveals the inspiration behind the new podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Mike Row with a very brief description of my new podcast called The Way I

0:11.2

Heard It.

0:12.8

Brief being the operative word, not just for this description, but for the podcast itself,

0:17.5

the general goal with the way I heard it was to satisfy two different things that I believe

0:23.2

are very much for sale here in the 21st century.

0:25.9

A curious mind and a short attention span.

0:29.1

I'm cursed with both and I have it on excellent authority that I'm not alone.

0:33.8

So I'm not even sure podcast is the right expression to describe what these are.

0:39.2

They're very short, five minute stories, mysteries, fundamentally.

0:44.3

Sometimes wrapped in biography, sometimes wrapped in pop culture, sometimes wrapped in the

0:48.8

history.

0:49.8

It didn't learn in your social studies class, but mostly they're mysteries.

0:53.8

And if it sounds at all familiar to you, it's probably because you remember Paul Harvey.

0:58.0

I certainly do one of the greatest broadcasters in the history of broadcasting for years did

1:03.6

a segment called The Rest of the Story.

1:05.7

And while I would in no way compare myself to him or imagine for a second that I could

1:10.6

ever follow in his gigantic footsteps, I am really interested and always have been in

1:17.6

that kind of storytelling.

1:19.8

Paul Harvey blazed the way for a lot of other people and the way I heard it is in part

1:26.2

and homage to those kinds of narratives, but mostly it's a selfish endeavor.

1:32.1

I like doing these.

1:33.3

I like researching them.

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